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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54477	An anatomical lecture of man, or, A map of the little world, delineated in essayes and characters by Samuell Person ...	Person, Samuel, 17th cent.	1664 (1664)	Wing P1665; ESTC R18374	38,395	111

it is a vulgar errour for men to say the World stands still and is constant which the Famous Phylosoper Copernicus proves nothing to be more unconstant more frail more giddy then it The World is a Centre the Heavens are its circumference which do encircle it yea the VVorld it self is a circle and the Devil is the Conjurer in it men are bewitched and are so charmed with enchantments that they do nothing but sleep in the bed of insecure security That is a very good Emblem of the frailty of the VVorld the VVorld being pictured and a hand from Heaven holding it in a string which string is the threed of this Life during its Duration in the VVorld which when it is divided by Atropus the destinies knife then the VVorld falls into an abysse of nothing from whence it came and so according to that distick Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo Et subito casu quae valuere ruunt All humane things hang by a slender thred VVhat stands most strong is quickly ruined Experience that severe Mistris teaches us every day how unconstant how brittle how unstable the World is and what man is there now that will not believe the opinions of the New Philosophers and Mathematicians that the World turns round This World is a stage or a theatre upon which all men come to act their parts Heavens are the Spectators they fight or should fight against the Devil and divellish vices This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Phylosophers calls it is a Labirinth and death is the Minotaure in it which devoures all men in its devouring jawes but our Heavenly Theseus will be the death of this death and the life of our life The World is more filthy then the Augaeano Stable oh for a Hercules which might clense it by letting the Alphean Rivers of Justice run through it to purge it from the dung of sin and puddle of iniquity This Structure of the VVorld is as an Ark swiming and floating in a Sea of Miscry delug'd with floods of iniquity Oh there is too many unclean Beasts in it not only whose feet bears the Image of the Beast the Devil but whose Souls have upon them his Devillish inscription The VVorld is round as though it stood for a Cypher but in my Arithmetick it is one though in the laughing wise-man Democritus's account there were plurality of Worlds but Mundus wants the plural number The VVorld by that ingeniousest of Poets Ovid is said to have four Ages the first Age was the Golden or best Age the second the Silver Age the third the Brazen Age and this last and worst Age is the Iron Age well may it be called so for so much war and so many Iron instruments of it that it seem'd as though Mars had made the World his field of War So here is an end of my description of the World though not of the World it self A Man IS by the Phylosophers called a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a little World and by a witty Characterist the world is called a great man and man a little World Man is a Map or Description of the great World he is the World in Epitomy man is Natures darling This Microcosme is a compendium and an abridgment of the great World Let us peep in the cranyes of secret Anatomy and let us symbolize mans parts with the worlds Man is compounded of the foure Elements viz. Fire Aire Earth and Water and so is the World a compound of these his Liver Blood and Moisture is as the Sea which sends out its streams into all parts of the body by little sanguine Rivers in Violet veins which are as so many leaden pipes to convey his blood Mans natural heat is his fire his radical moisture his Water his breath blown out and in by the bellows of his Lungs his Air and his Flesh is earth but mans soul by the tenent of all Phylosophers and Christians is held to be of a spiritual substance like to the Angels and his soul is the angellick intelligences so it doth move its little orb its body in its right course as do the coelestial inteligences or Angels move their orbs every one in their proper sphear mans body is of admirable Architecture Frame and Composure but mans soul which Ovid calls his better part which some bruitish men makes the worst it is as the heavens of an heavenly existence though his body be but as the earth Mans reason is the sun that shines in the Firmament of his soul and gives light to his body the little world his soul is a little heaven as I may call it his faculties viz Fancy Imagination Wit Memory Understanding Will c. are the Stars that gives light to his lesser VVorld Man is the model and extract of nature he is all the creatures epitomized in his little coppy he is the greatest letter in the book of nature mans soul is indued with such exquisite faculties his soul can fly from one pole to another in a moment with this winged motion can ascend to the heavens in a minuite and descend into the abisse in an instant can pierce with the Lynx's eyes of his Imagination and Fancy into the secretest places yea and behold imaginarily the centre of the Earth A man is a master-piece in which there are a thousand several motions a soul indued with such excellencies as in one minuite it can be in a thousand places mounts up to the top of the world fadoms the universe without touching it which goes glisters sparkles which is the great indagatrix which searches all the treasures and magazines of nature which finds out all sorts of inventions which frames Arts which governs States which orders Worlds Man is a book which he ought to dedicate to his Maker and this man is the King Lord and Master of all other creatures which man shall be an inhabitant of heaven or hell if he be a valiant Champion and fight his Battel on the Stage of the World and can say truly Caesars three Triumphant words Veni Vidi Vici Then he shall be an inhabitant of the Coelestial Paradise where he may eat of the tree of Life freely drink of the Waters of Life abundantly and enjoy the Tree of Knowledg eternally when he shal know what soever is to be known but if he be vanquished he may say of heaven and happiness as one said in another case Vale in aeternum Vale farewell and forever farewell but he shall be a prisoner in the subterraneal Gaol of hell settered in chains of darkness The World is a Center and men are the lines about it he who moves in a larger Orb he is further from the Center of the World and neerer heaven but he who moves in a narrower Orb and Sphear is neerer the earth and further from Heaven Riches are trash and pleasures a toy But peace of conscience is a perfect joy A Wise man IS one of Apollo's

intend to make a Brazen Wall about England but the Murus Aheneus of Justice and Innocency would better Fortisie it then his Brazen Wall or the Walls of Babylon Virgo is a good sign you may see her Constellation or Emblem in Heaven Our Terrene Virgo will take heed of Scorpio which in the Astronomers Anotomy of Man is the Secrets she has a care least she be stung with it least she be invenom'd and her belly cause to swell She is a sweet Virgin she seals her Virginity with her Virgins Wax which the flames of fiery Lust shall never melt Of all things she hath a care least she become an Hermophrodite to have a Male Child within her or to make an Hermophredite her Husband and she should constitute and make a Hermophite as all Husbands and VVives are or should be Hermophredites A Virgin is a Dove for Innocency simpler then simplicity she keeps the Fort of her Chastitie against all that assail it and she knows if she should loose it men would point at her as at a Map of Misery All uncivil words paints her face red and beautifies it with crymson blushes A Virgin is the purest clearest and most transparent piece that ever Nature drew she is the Metaphisicks of her sex other women that have lost their pearle of Chastity are but like the Almanacks mishappen Anatomy excepting Scorpio the secrets in comparison of her that is like the Celestial Virgo for Glory and Lustre she is a Phenix a none such yea all the World if I may say so is but Her Per●phrasis Death ANd now Death is the end of all things Death is the last line in mans Tragedy Mors ultima linea rerum Death is the Finis in the Book of Nature it is the literae finalis and it makes men literae quiescentes Death is an Arithmetician and especially practises the rule of Substraction for it abstracts as fast from Natures numbers as Nature can add to it Death to good men is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 end of all Misery Grief and Calamity yea and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beginning of Joy but Death to bad men is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Joy and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Misery Death to the good is rather life then Death Death it is quies to the Godly it s the mino taure in the Labrynth of the VVorld that kills every one that come into it Death hath its Sythe because all flesh is as Grasse Death is a Skelleton and it makes men like it Death Anatomizes men and puts them out of the robes of mortality Death is the destinies Atropos its knife that cuts the thred of Mans Life death is mans Executioner death is by the Phylosophers said to be a privation of life it is Heavens Messenger that is sent for men death is a cruel murderer who has made a crimson deluge of the blood of myriads of men death is the great change it has its Quiver and its darts and arrows men are the marks it aims at death le ts fly its winged darts and crosses mans heart and makes as it were a Crucifix and sends him to the Holy Land or else to Tartary to such a Purgatory or Lymbo where Vestigia nulla retrorsum death is a Sargeant that Arrests all men and casts them into the Prison of the Grave and makes them pay their debt to Nature death is but a Sleep striectly taken but death is such an Opium that wil make a man out-sleep the seven sleepers death when a man is running his full carear is the full stop there he pauses death makes an end of all things death is the end of all ends this death is the Neplus Vltra and lastly death of all things is the FINIS